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    Jon Raskin and improviser Jon Raskin and cross-genre poet Carla Harryman collaborate in bringing together music and poetry, using Harryman's texts as scores for musical interpretation and speaking voices. Improvisation and a thirty-year period of four music-text works that animate the contingent connections between music and language. Deploying a range of approaches and musical styles - from the elaborately sound edited, collage improvisations of the long poem "Open Box" and the text-based score "A Sun and 5 Decompositions" to the more raucous, heavy metal-interpretation of "Fish Speech" and the art music of "Song for Asa" - Raskin and Harryman re-imagine idioms for instrumental and speaking voice improvisation. The collection includes two instrumental works, derived from memes, that further elaborate the spirit of collaboration in the collection.

    Jon initiated the recording project while reading Carla's Open Box: Improvisations (Belladonna, 2006) a work written between November 2002 and 2003 after she turned the news off to listen to the music and sounds of her local world in psychic protest against the news media' representations of American Government's scaremongering and push to war under false premises. The open form of the fragmentary quatrains that constitute the poem was inspired by listening to improvised music during this period and by earlier performance and theater collaborations with Jon and other Bay Area and Detroit musicians and performers. Jon responded to the book by initiating a series of live and studio performances that gave him the material to develop the piece The process then led to this extended series of recorded works.

    A score without objective
    Open bands deploy
    Hope without hope
    As future etch

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Fish Speech 05:04
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2.
Open Box Part 1 09:39
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Open Box Part 2 10:47
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LA Reactive Meme 05:23
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Liz Allbee, Jon Raskin, Gino Robair, John Shiurba
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Song for Asa 05:42
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A Sun and Five Decompositions 18:03
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JS Active Meme 03:39
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Jon Raskin and improviser Jon Raskin and cross-genre poet Carla Harryman collaborate in bringing together music and poetry, using Harryman's texts as scores for musical interpretation and speaking voices. Improvisation and a thirty-year period of four music-text works that animate the contingent connections between music and language. Deploying a range of approaches and musical styles - from the elaborately sound edited, collage improvisations of the long poem "Open Box" and the text-based score "A Sun and 5 Decompositions" to the more raucous, heavy metal-interpretation of "Fish Speech" and the art music of "Song for Asa" - Raskin and Harryman re-imagine idioms for instrumental and speaking voice improvisation. The collection includes two instrumental works, derived from memes, that further elaborate the spirit of collaboration in the collection.

Jon initiated the recording project while reading Carla's Open Box: Improvisations (Belladonna, 2006) a work written between November 2002 and 2003 after she turned the news off to listen to the music and sounds of her local world in psychic protest against the news media' representations of American Government's scaremongering and push to war under false premises. The open form of the fragmentary quatrains that constitute the poem was inspired by listening to improvised music during this period and by earlier performance and theater collaborations with Jon and other Bay Area and Detroit musicians and performers. Jon responded to the book by initiating a series of live and studio performances that gave him the material to develop the piece The process then led to this extended series of recorded works.

A score without objective
Open bands deploy
Hope without hope
As future etch

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released March 1, 2012

Liz Allbee - trumpet, electronics
Eli Crews - Pro Tools, studio
Carla Harryman -reader
Aurora Josephson - reader, vocals
Ava Mendoza - electric guitar
Jon Raskin - reader, sax, vocals
Gino Robair - drums, electronics, percussion, piano
John Shiurba - electric guitar
Roham Sheikani - reader

Compositions by Jon Raskin
All Poetry and Verbal Scores by Carla Harryman
Produced by Jon Raskin
Executive Producer John Zorn
Associates Producer Kazunori Sugiyama
Pre Mastered by Myles Boisen at Headless Buddha
Mastered by Scot Hull

Cover Art Pastoral Deluxe (Exhibit A) Elin Lennox
Jon Raskin Photo by Lori Lorenzo
Carla Harryman Photo by Barrett Watten
Design Chippy (Heung-Heung Chin)

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Jon Raskin Sacramento, California

Jon Raskin has been a member of Rova Saxophone Quartet for the last 42 years exploring the relationship of improvisation and composition, developing and honing the language of ensemble music and researching linguistic possibilities of the saxophone along with a host of known and unknown instruments. ... more

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